went out to go bouldering. then my fixie broke down on me. walked home and did tallac instead. feels good to get into longer sweet spot intervals. the scheduled cool down is too short though, so i extended a bit.
now it’s only pallisade left and then rest week to complete ssblv1. yeah!
Race day. Supposed to be a 4 lap 88km road race. Unfortunately cut short on lap 3 due to crashes in the higher categories causing road closure and abandonment of the event.
To be honest I probably wasn’t making around lap 4 anyway. I got blown out the back on the opening climb of lap 3 and did manage to chase back on just before the race was stopped. Unlikely I would have managed the same thing on lap 4.
Doing SSBLV2 and didn’t get outside for an actual ride last week, so borrowed from the corresponding SSBMV2 week. Those seven-minute recoveries are exactly the right length.
: Voxwomen on the realities of broadcasting for women’s racing
In totally unrelated news, today I learned that you have to actually wash the heart monitor unit, not just the strap, or dried sweat will kill the connection and you’ll spend fifteen minutes snapping it in and out and licking things before you think to check the support website.
Race day!
Fort Custer Stampede XC race, ~19 miles over 2 laps. Second race of my season so far, felt like I raced much better today than last week. I don’t have power data on the MTB, but my HR chart shows that I spent 71 minutes above 90% max HR, of which 16 minutes was at or above 95%.
I don’t think I could’ve gone any harder. I was worried I was going to blow up near the end of lap 1, and made a conscious effort to try and pace a bit more steady. I thought that was going to make me slower, but lap 2 was actually 30 seconds faster.
Like, daily.
Unless you have a HRM tri that sounds like a bad idea. Ive also never heard that. The biggest thing with the Garmin bands is to make sure you short out the battery pins when you install a new battery or they don’t come back to life for some bizarre reason.
(I’m not sure what HRM tri means.) I have Wahoo Tickr. I washed the back of the unit with a damp paper towel and a little soap. I didn’t throw it in the laundry/dishwasher or anything like that, no submerging in water.
Yeah sorry. Totally misread that!
HRM Tri is one of the Garmin straps for triathlon.
Not sure about the Tickr, but the Garmin HRM has a decent o-ring seal to protect the battery. I just wash it under the tap (with waterever handwash is currently in our bathroom), rinse it with clean water and towel dry it. Same for the strap, but once a week that also goes in the washing machine.
i put my first of the newer style HRM straps in the washing machine once a week, and it eventually started breaking down/tearing after about a year. I’ve been handwashing only my HRM tri for about 2 years now. The only difference between the HRM run and tri versions is the tri version stores HR data that is measured underwater and will then send it to the base unit after the session is recorded. The waterproof o-ring is the same on both, and I used to wear my HRM run under my tri suit and it worked fine once I got out of the water.
Been slacking a bit on updates lately. Had a busy first half of XCO specialty, and then got food poisoning last Thursday so haven’t done anything since then.
Did Homers Nose -1 today, feeling pretty decent since bumping up FTP setting once again, but sub-threshold work like this is hardly different with a 5 watt difference. Did not do any time in the drops today though like I normally would, will get back to that next week.
Weather finally nice (there was even a bit of snow falling mid-week last week…), floods are receding (but lots of leftovers on my usual roads), so - replaced Andrews with 90 mins easy outside - wow. So much fun to pedal and have the bike actually get somewhere.
barf, too early in road race season for me to complete this, but tons 18m above 500W so I’ll take it.
6 x 2m @ 140%, 1m recovery. Needed 2m recovery and slipped towards 125%
6 x 1m @ 155%, 1m recovery. This was brutal and watts eventually slipped.
6 x 30s @200%. I went all out but needed 2.5m recovery.
The weather was nice where today and it was the first day that I felt I could breath properly getting out of bed (head cold triggering asthma exacerbation) in about 3 weeks, all of which meant it was time for an outdoor ride.
50km loop from my house across the city to one of the seaside suburbs which has a 2.4km 5% climb… I had to stop 3 times but I made it up and over the climb (first time ever considering to cycle it) and then back home. Legs and lungs felt good at the end of the ride although my neck was a bit sore. Just need to start increasing ride length and elevation now …